1. Do not do enough research on flights. Your flight will be the most expensive part of your journey. You can save hundreds of dollars by flights that require multiple stops instead of non-stop and save in some cases by airlines in the neighboring countries, your goal, smaller national airlines or buses or trains to your destination. 2. Put too little or too much luggage. Not researching the climate may mean you can end up buying things you already have at home and could, such as jackets, hats and gloves. can on the other hand, brings things you probably do not need (or not use) can be as much clothing will add too many devices (hair dryer, curling iron, shaver, cell phones that do not work here) your budget either at the counter Airline (excess baggage) or if you have someone else pay the cart around your luggage while you're there (taxi drivers, children and doormen at hotels and airports), or pay to have your luggage while you are in the shorter legs of your journey. 3. Use credit cards and traveler's checks and not enough money to bring. The safest way to make money is to waste the use of credit cards. First, you must pay an additional percentage to use them in most South American countries (usually about 3%). Second, do not accept many places. Traveler's checks will also be replaced (at additional cost) in a few places. The money is another problem. If you are to have someone wire you money, you have a large impact wad of cash! 4. Ignore great small hotels and hostels, because they sound "unknown" or not in your travel guidebook. There are many small hotels and hostels, the clean, comfortable and offer good service throughout Latin America. You would not need a big expensive hotel. I am not knocking cockroaches put up in front of you, but if you spend to much time in bed or watching television programming, how many times you will really be in your room anyway? One of the best ways to find a cheap but good hotel is to get a personal recommendation, I strongly encourage you travel to visit forums and reviews (and pay it forward - Leave your opinion on benefit for someone else, if you're already gone ). 5. Pay to eat too much. While you should always take precautions to ensure that you are not sick, skip restaurants, will not see, clean, but not always eat out at expensive restaurants. Choose restaurants that look good, but not in your guide. Most restaurants that are frequented by tourists adapt their menu prices for tourists and locals who want to dine there, so they know to choose. In addition, many travelers do not try the local cuisine! Did you know that in many parts of South America, foreign or international fast-food restaurants are a luxury and more expensive options of local standards? 6. Not to negotiate. In supermarkets and shops, the tickets to your article, which you do not negotiate the price you can down. But in most open markets, it is not a mistake. Provider automatically the price when they see you are foreign and expect your first reaction to a request for a price break. 7. Ignore open markets. Latin America's open markets sell everything. Skip meat and cheese, (they are never frozen) and unbottled water and juices, but buying fruit, vegetables, bread, butter, biscuits and snacks, soft drinks and more. Almost everything you find in a supermarket here. You can also sunglasses, hats and clothing, mosquito repellent, batteries, toiletries and many other things that are sold in supermarkets in the vicinity for up to twice as much. 9. For the tourist trap shops. Latin American markets do not just sell food. Skip the expensive tourist trap souvenir shops (most cost about 2-3 times more than they should). Even souvenir areas such as open markets may look more expensive than they should be, because they care only to foreigners. If you only souvenirs and nothing else, it is a haven for tourists. Go to the opening of markets to buy from various suppliers who offer their products on the street, and you can use the same souvenirs at much lower prices to get. And be sure to bargain (you will be surprised if you are NOT). They are really contributing to the most needy sector of our local economy if you want. 10. Ignore cool free sites or places of interest in travel guides. Stay (to visit and miss some really nice places) on the trail 100% of the time, and you will waste a lot of money. Did you charge for many major museums and art galleries in South America is not an entry fee? Have you observed from the hundreds of great local parks and places for great photo opportunities and people checked? Have you wondered what the locals is great to see? 11. Pay too much for taxis, do not take public transportation, do not walk anywhere. Many hotels have established taxi service. Do not use them. They charge 2-3 times what does a normal taxi. Only a few steps around the corner and take a taxi from the street. 12. Bring the wrong equipment, electronics and accessories. Electrical sources vary widely in South America and from one country to another (even within a country). Some use 220V and 110V few. You must either bring or adapter must be sure of getting the right equipment for the region you will travel or live there. 13. Not research proper documentation. All countries require a bit of foreign nationals to enter (passports, shots, yellow fever, invitations, hotel reservations, and others). After all the proper documents before you get to be a boon for the wallet. First they can on arrival cost more waste, your time, and the potential to end up getting sent home, if you do not have the documentation you need. 14. Do not leave copies of your documents and credit cards at home. Losing your documents or stolen can be a really horrible experience. Not with copies of them just makes it worse. Leave photocopies of your passport, medical records, airline tickets, credit cards and other important documents that you carry in your wallet at home (and bring an extra copy with you). If you need a new process at the Consulate, this will be much easier and faster and usually less expensive to make. 15. Do not spend enough on your tour. Huh? Well, believe it or not, if you do not properly research your tour operator, your cheap trip with a cruddy tour operator who does not live up to your expectations and do not deliver what was promised can end up costing you more in discontent as a tour that to start something more expensive, but its promise was made. You will feel cheated at the end and how you wasted your money. 16. Do not invest in travel insurance. Nobody wants to fall ill during the trip, lose your luggage or have documentation, have an emergency or accident, or stolen something from them on the go. But it happens. Are these things ever predictable somewhere? 17. Make way too expensive overseas phone calls. There are many cheap or even free ways to communicate with the people "back home" while you need on your trip. Latin America has an uncanny number of super-cheap Internet cafes, which in many areas of cost under a dollar per hour. Set up programs like Skype on your home computer and use it while you're here. Additionally, if you research the best phone cards and / or cell phone rental or purchase options, and you can cut your budget way down. You can also Skype without a computer. 18. Bring your own cell phone. Check before you travel, whether your cell phone to work in South America. Most of South America used a completely different pattern and type of calling system and many many many many many phones from many countries not work here at all. So investing in a mobile phone or hire purchase of an international trip can actually save money by phone. 19. Not dare enough on their own. Some tours are dangerous or just too far away to on your own, but you need take no leader anywhere. With a little self-confidence, there are tons of places you can visit without a guide, translator and tour operators. The same applies to those who move to South America 20th Not research the laws regarding travel with children and pets. If you are traveling with minors, you need special permission and documentation, especially if only one parent traveling with a child. Many foreigners, was not again sent home with an approval document from the other parent. Not with the appropriate documentation for your pet can cause expensive quarantine costs. 21. Not research our holiday. One of the best ways to lose money during the trip is to arrive at national or regional holidays, closed all around here. While you may enjoy the feast, you could not find a place to stay, banks and exchange offices may be closed and you could end up either spending elsewhere, or the payment for the only available hotels trips (which are expensive, the last free authorities have). 22. Do not brush up on your Spanish. The investment in a few hours of Spanish lessons, a good Spanish travel phrase book for free or Spanish phrases for your iPod or other accessories can save you money in the longrun. How? You can avoid possibly paying for a translator (in many South American countries tour guide speak English or other languages). In addition, you can avoid feeling cheated in the markets and stores or anywhere else you pay for something when you see providers know just enough Spanish to get through. If they assume you have here, as they tend to expect that you're been cheap. 23. Accidentally (or intentionally) break the law. One way is to run into financial difficulties to commit a crime. Take a tour prison on cocaine purchase is a huge no-no. Buying illegal drugs, or purchase of drugs or alcohol for yourself or someone else somewhere is a crime. First steps in arguments or fights, participating in political rallies or demonstrations, rude to police officers, burglary, on private property, disorderly conduct attempted cross roadblocks and injured someone while driving, or even if you defend yourself from a thief, can all you end up in prison. Even if you are declared innocent, and everything is finally cleared up, it can be time and money to get you out of your predicament. 24. Flash your money. When you travel, you carry your money in different places at a time (some in your purse, some in a pocket, etc.) so that you are not on the whole bundle, if you take to pay for something. Not only will you measure these appear to cause, if you negotiated a price only your provider who feel betrayed, and Latin America provide poor feel terrible in general, it is a guaranteed way to ensure that people will immediately raise their prices if you ask what is the cost of something. If you set your currency exchange for small bills. There is always change easier and save you money in the long run because you do not as a "foreigner with a big bundle of cash for whom we should raise our prices" are perceived. 25. Subjects lost. Not only it will automatically send the message that you are a foreigner and should pay more for stuff, it is also dangerous. No matter where you are or where you go, even if you get lost, go to the end, stay in bright surroundings. Just ask for directions from police officers, shopkeepers, restaurants and other facilities. Look like you're lost and you can be a target for thieves and others who intentionally mislead you and you could end up with, be to replace your property. Look like you know where you go and you are most likely to hold their activities. But this Council would follow anywhere in the world, is not it? 26. Carry big expensive cameras in full view. Nothing screams "come Tourist!" More than the camera - and this is actually for almost any camera. South American tourism providers are Master Spotter. You can see from miles away and about the message quickly that you are in the neighborhood. Vendors eager arrange their products (with the most expensive or even cheap to hide), and before you arrive, they have already spoken with each other and to the higher prices they offer all the same. Enter accept all types of cameras in a camera bag, get out your camera when you need to make your photo, put it back in your pocket when you're done, and you will save a lot of money. 27. Not any money aside for emergencies. It is terribly ill, have an accident, you lose your things, or suffer a loss or theft, while on the go. Blowing all your money at the beginning of the trip is not only unwise, it is dangerous. You might need at the end, to visit a clinic or money. In addition, someone wire you money to add the costs. In addition, many purchases represent the beginning of the journey just means that you add to cart it around with you (or pay in order to save it) while you travel. 28. The safest way to pay for more space than you need for just about everything: appearance, dress and act like a tourist. Knit A) Wear geeky tourist clothes (the embroidered shirts and hats that do not look really wear on everyone and no one but tourists cool, the huge hiking boots, even if you round the city on foot, the alpaca make sweaters just tourists , the jeans that are so greasy they could stand on its own, you get the picture). B) Wear clothing that is inappropriate for an event or occasion. No one expects you to dress up as a touring. But in restaurants, bars and clubs you can not enter even a few you can do if you are wearing inappropriate clothing (eg, some will not leave you with torn or cut-off shorts, do not let other trainers). C) a foreign language fluently speak all the time, make no attempt to use Spanish and speak very loudly. Many South Americans are pretty quiet and talk quietly to each other in public places, buses, restaurants, etc. You'll never fail to look like a stranger. Everyone will always know as a tourist or immigrant from a local. But if you want to save money, tone it down.
